What the starting point is will depend on to what extent Cog has
been open sourced (Teleplace may choose to open source single-threaded Cog initially, keeping back the threaded FFI for a while, it may not open source Cog at all; we'll see :) ). May be I the only one to notice the:) which I have problem to understand since for me it announces that COG may not be open-source.
Isn't this what you wanted to allow companies to do, when you chose the MIT license? I don't understand, why should you care?
I see some irony... Not me. Freedom of choice is a political attitude. I understand GPL goal but I do not adhere to it. I respect people pushing it but not in my way. I'm not sure that we should debate that here but we do not have the single answer.